Hi Keith,

I've learned two things researching this....the existance of the -SHELL command line parameter, and two DDE services (or topics?) Open("%1") and Print("%1). Neither Open nor Print are documented anywhere. You could do what you are looking for though a DDE service application, but that would sort of defeat the purpose of a simple double-click from the Folder.

If someone else has knowledge of what VFP commands are supported via DDE and how this might be done, I'm all ears.


>I'm trying to figure out how to add an Edit selection to my Explorer context menu. Most of the time if I double click a .PRG from Win Explorer I want to edit a program as opposed to running it. In fact I can't *remember* the last time I wanted to run a PRG that way.
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>I'm looking at View > Options > File Type and under Microsoft Visual FoxPro Program the Open action has some DDE dialog. There's an Open message, but I've tried using an Edit message without much success.
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>It seems that what I'm trying to accomplish is very much like a drag-and-drop operation (uhhh...without dragging or dropping :-)
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>Two questions:
>1) is there a reference that talks about the various topics and messages that VFP understands?
>2) is there a way of doing what I'm trying to do?
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>Thanks for any assistance you can lend.
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> ...kt